Defense-Spending Bill in Senate Takes Aim at For-Profit Colleges

By Kelly Field

Washington

Tucked into a defense-spending bill that the Senate
Appropriations Committee approved on Thursday are a pair of
provisions that would bar colleges from spending tuition-assistance
money on marketing and advertising, and would count such aid in the
federal share of what's known as the 90/10 rule.

The language, which was added to the bill by the chairman of the
panel's defense subcommittee, Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois,
is aimed at for-profit colleges, which have been